By Neal Shusterman
ISBN-10: 014240599X
ISBN-13: 9780142405994
Dread Locks is the 1st access at midnight Fusion sequence from grasp storyteller Neal Shusterman. He cleverly weaves jointly established elements of fairy stories and Greek mythology to inform the tale of fourteen-year-old Parker undergo, wealthy and completely uninterested in life—until a brand new lady arrives on the town. Tara's eyes are consistently hidden at the back of clothier sun shades, and her hair, blond with glimmering spirals, turns out virtually alive. Parker watches, involved, as one after the other Tara chooses highschool scholars to befriend; he even is helping her via making the mandatory introductions. through the years, her “friends” strengthen unusual quirks, akin to consuming gallons of milk, consuming dust, and changing into torpid. by the point Parker realizes what Tara is doing, he's too embroiled to prevent her. actually, she has endowed him with convinced cravings of his personal. . . .To say extra could destroy the spooky enjoyable of this wild thriller—let the twist converse for itself and depart you continue to as a statue.
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I dared to peer inside. The place was still a wreck, but now it was filled with luxurious furniture. Old stuff—the kind they put in fake rooms in museums, then block off with red velvet ropes. Bubble-wrapped artwork leaned against the peeling walls everywhere, and boxes were stacked like building blocks halfway to the vaulted ceiling. Whoever had moved in was probably asleep after such a long night of moving. I sneaked around to the back and peered in to find more of the same in the kitchen and dining room.
Dante asked. “It has a lot to offer someone like me,” Tara said. ” It’s funny, but I felt a wave of relief wash over me.
Melanie gave the orders, and the others followed. I was hoping to get a chance to talk to Tara at lunch and find out what she wanted from Celeste. I didn’t see her in the cafeteria, so I went to the outside lunch tables. Tara was sitting at a table with Nils Lundgren, the smartest non-geek in the school, a tall, skinny guy with long red hair. They said he was taking college-level courses in physics and chemistry, but he had a life beyond cracking the books. Even though he bragged that he was one of the only people in the school who knew who to use a slide rule, whatever that is, he could also carry on a normal conversation.
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